The APNU+AFC Government has budgeted for the titling of 30 more indigenous communities even as it negotiates a four-year extension of the present project funded through the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) and which ends in October 2016.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Sydney Allicock in an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA).
“In the 2017 budget we have budgeted for that period. If we don’t get the funding needed, we would have enough funding (from 2017) to hopefully do another 30 communities for 2017”, GINA quoted the minister as saying. Once the money is sourced, Allicock said that it will be used to acquire aerial videography services which will quicken the demarcation of boundaries in the communities.
